{"title":"PL zone in Victoria: Parking Lot District","code":"PL","slug":"pl","name":"Parking Lot District","group":"Public","section":"8.9","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Operation of a parking lot for public parking for a fee.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Operation of a parking lot for public parking for a fee"],"quotes":["The following use is permitted, namely, the operation of a","parking lot, set aside for the parking of one or more vehicles"]},"other":{"value":["Parking lot surface must be completely paved and adequately drained","Parking lots next to residential land must be screened by evergreen hedges or a view-obscuring fence at least 1.3 m high","Lighting must be deflected from adjoining lots and streets","Signs limited to one sign of not more than 2 m² at each entrance and exit"],"quotes":["(a) the surface area of the parking lot shall be completely","paved and adequately drained;","the parking lot shall be screened","obscuring fence or both, and such hedges or fences, as","must be of a height of not less than 1.3m","(d) all lighting used to illuminate the parking lot shall be","(e) there shall be no signs on the parking lot except for one","sign, not exceeding 2m2 in area, at each entrance and at"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Zoning Regulation Bylaw No. 80-159 (consolidated on October 17, 2019 up to Bylaw No. 19-074; zone Parts amended to Bylaw 24-060, August 2024) and Zoning Bylaw 2018 (consolidated on June 9, 2022 up to Bylaw No. 22-048)","url":"https://www.victoria.ca/building-business/permits-development-construction/zoning/zoning-regulation-bylaw","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"Victoria has two zoning bylaws in force. Zoning Bylaw 2018 (zones GRD-1, LVD-1, CVD-1, TCD-1, CBD-1, CBD-2, MRD-1, OTD-1, IAI-1, MI-1, LI-1, HI-1; https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/zoning-bylaw-2018) applies to the areas on its Map 1: the Downtown Core Area and most commercial and low-density residential properties in town centres, urban villages and residential fabric. The Zoning Regulation Bylaw No. 80-159 (one PDF per zone) still governs the rest, including most industrial, medium and high density residential outside downtown, comprehensive development districts and some commercial properties. The City says its website bylaws are office consolidations provided for convenience; refer to the bylaws and amendments at City Hall. In text.txt every file starts at a '[source <url>]' line; the first file is the Introduction & General Regulations of Bylaw 80-159 and the Zoning Bylaw 2018 is appended at the end. Zones whose PDF has no text layer (image-only; no OCR was run) have no lines or pdf_page, only source_url; 179 codes, listed in places/victoria/no-text-layer.txt. For zones with text, pdf_page is the page inside that zone's own PDF (always the first page)."},"source_url":"https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/89pdf#page=1","place":{"path":"ca/bc/victoria","name":"Victoria","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/pl/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/pl.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/pl.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}